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Some stuffs i made/wrote for debian.
I use this script to prepare my reports ./laptop.sh
Debian Policy requires that every binary have a man page (because it's usefull... RTFM). But some programs don't. I have written a shell script that help me pick the one the most usefull: It generates a list of localy installed binaries that requires a manpage, sorted by popularity. It does this using :
A sample output for my system : complete list and a shorter list having program = package name. Also, some Manpages I wrote and submitted to package maintainers.
Find Bugs... Fix bugs (thanks to Enrico Zini for repeating again and again ;-) If you want to contribute to open source software, reporting bugs a something very usefull anyone can do (no technical skills required).
Repositories of some errors i encoutered.. Error_Messages.html
some of my contributions on debian wiki are listed on http://wiki.debian.org/FranklinPiat.
I should still migrate those [incomplete] pages on wiki.d.o (DebianReference + DI guide) :
Since woody, old cd-image are available from http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/. I have setup a mirror with older ones and no-so-old netinst cds at http://mirror.klabs.be/debian-cd/ (Since those tends to vanish from the internet).